Markus Söder

Markus Söder   (politician)
Born	5 January 1967
Nationality	German
Founder of	Bavaria/COVID-19 Economic Advisory Council
Member of	American Council on Germany/Young Leaders/2001, Bavaria/COVID-19 Economic Advisory Council, Hanns Seidel Foundation
Bavarian politician first out with hard lockdowns in 2020.  Minister President of Bavaria In office 16 March 2018 - Present

Markus Söder is a German politician serving as Minister President of Bavaria since 2018. He has been one of the foremost proponents of a hard lockdown and other measures in the Covid-19 situation.

Background, education and military service

After graduating from the Gymnasium in 1986, he served his military service from 1986 to 1987. He then studied law at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg from 1987 with a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. He passed his first state examination in 1991 and was a research assistant at the department of constitutional, administrative and church law at the same university. He worked as a trainee and then as an editor with Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich from 1992 to 1994, when he was elected to the Bavarian Parliament and became a full-time politician.

Söder has been a member of the Landtag, the state parliament of Bavaria, since 1994. From 2003 to 2007 he was secretary general of the CSU party; in this capacity, he worked closely with then Minister-President and party chairman Edmund Stoiber. During his time in office, he was also part of the CDU/CSU team in the negotiations with the SPD on a coalition agreement following the 2005 federal elections, which paved the way to the formation of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s first government.

As finance minister in the state government of Minister-President Horst Seehofer in the period 2011-18, Söder was also one of the state’s representatives at the Bundesrat, where he served on the Finance Committee.

School years

A teacher remember's him in the following way:

The teacher says he would have remembered Markus Söder "even if he hadn't made this career. An excellent student, high intellectual potential." Söder never played truant, gave brilliant presentations, wrote excellent exams, got 15 points from him on every report card, "translates: one plus," which contributed to Söder's Abi (college-preparatory school diploma) average of 1.3.

As the teacher recalls, an almost audible "but" hangs in the air the whole time. He utters it when describing the team spirit of his class at the time as: a group of students among whom Söder "unfortunately" also stood out for a "lack of empathy." He enjoyed his A's the most, he says, as long as the others were writing C's. If someone had come too close to him in the grades, it could have happened that he complained that the exam had been too easy.

"Markus Söder always saw himself in competition with the group," says the teacher. Never, he says, was he asked for help by the others. "Who do you ask for help? The one you suspect wants to help."

Minister-President of Bavaria

In March 2018, lawmakers formally elected Söder as new Minister-President to replace Horst Seehofer, who had become German interior minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new cabinet.

Covid-lockdown

Söder recieved a "speed date" with WEF-leader Klaus Schwab in January 2020, two months before the lockdown

He and his cabinet were one of the first state governments to decide to impose a "lockdown" to contain the virus.

Söder predicts a "Corona-RAF"

"Evil thoughts turn into evil words and at some point also evil deeds", warned Söder."That is why we not only have to improve the security measures for democratic institutions in Germany, but also fundamentally look at the sect-like movement of 'lateral thinkers' and other comparable groups."

"There is a risk that “a corona mob or a type of corona-RAF could form in Germany from the environment of the AfD, that could become increasingly aggressive and even violent” "

According to him, the domestic security agency BfV has a central task to play here.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/2020	14 February 2020	16 February 2020	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."
Munich Security Conference/2022	18 February 2022	20 February 2022	Germany Munich Bavaria	Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here
Munich Security Conference/2023	17 February 2023	19 February 2023	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere.
Munich Security Conference/2024	16 February 2024	18 February 2024	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020	21 January 2020	24 January 2020	World Economic Forum Switzerland	This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.

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